We have to admit that the troops at gulker.com have had a wonderful time these past two weeks in Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas and Southern California. We do now however, both of us, find ourselves a bit road-weary at the same time as we have to face all the stuff we didn’t do while traveling these past two weeks.
Email inboxes are close to critical, not to mention our actual postal mailbox, likewise prodigious (though it was very well managed by our neighbor’s third-grader in our absence.) Today’s morning errands (which lasted until 3 PM) included everything from major grocery shopping to carwash to finding the right cartridges for our inkjet printer to filling and mailing all the insurance and government forms that awaited us. Some still await.
So, I was going to ‘lay low,’ but, then, thinking that that choice of verb was probably incorrect, I looked it up (every Mac comes with an electronic version of the American Heritage Dictionary.) Sure enough, the entries for both lie and lay contained a usage note explaining that people commonly mix up the two terms. I had, or, at least, was about to.
Lie means ‘to recline’ and lay means ‘to place’ among other things, so ‘laying low’ wouldn’t really, correctly express my sentiment. Anyway, we’ll be heads down for a couple days getting through all this stuff. You do the blog thing, you better get serious about your syntax, know what I mean?
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